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From sushi to tomatoes, these are the biggest wedding food trends of summer 2024.
  • Popular wedding food trends like midnight snacks and food trucks remain, with new ones emerging.
  • Sushi and tomatoes are two major wedding trends this summer, according to caterer Lexi Ritsch.
  • Some trends, like cakes and buffets, are losing favor with couples.

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A global Windows outage, reportedly caused by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, has impacted businesses including airlines, health services, banks, media broadcasters, schools, and supermarkets, among others.

Not just a worldwide Blue Screen of Death for Windows users, the crash has seen over 1,000 flights cancelled, the BBC reports, citing aviation analytics firm Cirium. Reports of delays at



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Evan Gershkovich, a US journalist accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendants' cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg's Sverdlovsk Regional Court.
  • Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced Friday to 16 years in a Russian prison.
  • Detained in Russia since March 2023, the 32-year-old was found guilty on espionage charges.

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Rebecca Cox is a teacher working different jobs this summer.
  • Rebecca Cox is working side jobs this summer after her first year as a full-time teacher.
  • She's working at a restaurant and as a nanny, and did a short gig with an organizing business.
  • Many teachers are financially stressed, and it could be pushing some into summer work.

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Editor's note: Check out our oft-updated live blog for all new developments about the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage.

Numerous Windows PCs and computer systems across the world are down, affecting businesses like airlines, supermarkets, broadcasters, software providers, and more.

The issue stems from a faulty update in the Falcon Sensor software from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, and it's



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Schim is one of the games I was most looking forward to this year, and I generally had a pleasant time with it. It’s a pretty platformer in which every object and living thing has a soul called a Schim. These frog-like critters live in the shadow of their host but can become lost when its object or creature is neglected, damaged or going through something life-changing.

You play as a Schim that



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Have you seen the memes online where someone tells a bot to “ignore all previous instructions” and proceeds to break it in the funniest ways possible?

The way it works goes something like this: Imagine we at The Verge created an AI bot with explicit instructions to direct you to our excellent reporting on



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A number of paintings, inscriptions, and other artworks of several pharaohs were found in Aswan, on the heels of previous inscriptions found before the construction of the Aswan High Dam.



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Evo 2024 starts Friday, July 19th, kicking off a weekend full of one of the most intense fighting game competitions in the world. This year, over 10,000 players will participate in a host of games, making this the largest Evo ever while also setting the record for the largest esports tournament.

Evo has been getting bigger and bigger, with